61.   Tandem makes computers designed not to malfunction, which are used by financial services and other industries.

62.   Stratus, based in Marlborough, Mass., makes powerful computers that are designed for uninterrupted use, such as the systems that run telephone networks or banks.

63.   Sun makes computers that run Unix software, the backbone of many corporate computer networks, and a mature operating system with years of use in large-scale computing chores.

64.   The cash infusion would help Amdahl, which makes mainframe computers and offers computer services, compete against computer rivals such as IBM Corp.

65.   The company makes computers that run on Linux, an operating system that is challenging Microsoft Windows.

66.   The company also has a plant in McDonough, Ga., which manufactures computer monitors, and one in Fife, Wash., which makes notebook computers.

67.   The company buys the machines wholesale from Taipei-based Mitac, which Futurenet officials said makes computers for Compaq Corp. and IBM Corp.

68.   The company has laid off hundreds of people, integrated its Claris software subsidiary into the parent company and closed its Newton unit, which made handheld computers.

69.   The computer is made by IBM Corp, not some maker of cut-rate clones.

70.   The Hewlett-Packard strategy, teaming up with Compaq, is to make those computers and also sell software and services to solve business problems.